The Amazon is not your average river. And Pure Amazon, Abercrombie & Kent's first riverboat in South America, is far from your average river cruising vessel. Think floating safari, but half a world ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

Torben Severson has departed Amazon after 17 years to join OpenAI. Severson will serve as Vice President and Head of Global Business Development at OpenAI. OpenAI has hired over 400 employees in the ...

TAPAUA, Brazil — Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas state, as ...

Flowing across the heart of South America, the Amazon River nourishes the planet’s largest rainforest and countless species that depend on it. This video explores the river’s extraordinary geography ...

After being outfitted with lifejackets and mud boots, we boarded skiffs for the brief ride across the river to the boat. No more than halfway across, our guide shone his flashlight on some bats in the ...

When dolphins began washing up dead by the dozens on Lake Tefe in Brazil's Amazonas state, hydrologist Ayan Fleischmann was sent to find out why. What he and his colleagues discovered was startling: a ...

Lakes in the Amazon became hotter than the maximum temperature recommended for hot tubs as unprecedented heat and drought in 2023 turned them into “shallow, simmering basins,” according to a new study ...

A skiff excursion with the Pure Amazon in the background. The Pure Amazon is Abercrombie & Kent's first South American riverboat. Photo Credit: Tom Griffiths Abercrombie & Kent's Pure Amazon, the ...

Brazil’s state-controlled oil major Petrobras has received long-awaited approval from environmental regulator Ibama to begin exploratory drilling in the Foz do Amazonas basin, a deepwater region near ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river ...